Age verification

[zoee1928]

Can someone at EBay.
Find a solution to not just having a credit card to verify ages. Surely drivers licence should be able to be used or are they so tech STUPID  AT META. 
not everyone has a credit card .. 

I can’t bid on tools and have lost out due to their incompetence to sort this mess out . 
technology my **se . 
 Who. Is getting paid to be stupid and not get a platform in place  . 
 Anyone else having trouble. 
sellers are losing money from other tradesmen trying to buy tools. X

enough. Said.  Get it sorted

[tressygirl]

You are not speaking to eBay here but to other members like yourself.

You ask ' is anyone else having this trouble?'  The answer to that is yes, we see this question regularly, but for online selling eBay will only accept a credit card registered on the account as proof the buyer is over the age of 18.

No idea why other forms,  driving licences,  passports cannot be used,  but it's always been eBay's rule.

@zoee1928 

[jckl1957]

Ebay won't change the system.

I know not everybody has a credit card but it is a secure and straightforward way to prove to a seller that the purchaser is over 18.

Personally, I think it is preferable to the alternatives.  I would not like to have to scan and send photo ID, such as a driving license, every time I made such a purchase.  That is what I had to do when I bought craft scissors online a couple of years ago.

[zoee1928]

Well maybe check how long someone has held an eBay account. Would also prove age.
Still needs to be looked into . Sellers are loosing out I could not bid on an item I wanted and lost it due to this ruling .
Thank you


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[john1297576]

Simple answer as ebay will not change, is to get a friend to buy for you.

Photographic evidence such as Driving  Licence, does not really prove it is the buyer, if for example the ID is used by other members of a family.